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About Michael Posluns

Michael Posluns is currently working on his thesis for his second Masters Degree, this time an LLM. He directed the Parliamentary Liaison Office of the National Indian Brotherhood / Assembly of First Nations through four administrations and ran a consulting business doing similar work for some years after that. In 1990 he wrote a Master's thesis on the bureaucratic efforts to undermine the Commons Special Committee on Indian Self-Government, and later wrote a doctoral dissertation on the testimony of First Nations lea ders before a succession of joint Senate-Commons Committees on the Constitution during the decade before patriation, part of which was published in 2006 under the title Speaking with Authority: The Emergence of the Vocabulary of First Nations Self-Government (Routledge).